1447

Year 1447 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1447

* March 6 - Pope Nicholas V succeeds Pope Eugene IV as the 208th pope.
* December - Vlad II Dracul, ruler of Wallachia, and his eldest son Mircea are assassinated. Vladislav II succeeds him with the assistance of John Hunyadi.
* According to "Ryū"'s own sources, Iizasa Ienao founds Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto-ryu, the earliest historically verifiable Japanese "koryū" martial art that is still extant today.

Births

* December 9 - Chenghua Emperor of China (d. 1487)
*"date unknown"
**Piero Capponi, Italian soldier and statesman (d. 1496)
**Philippe de Commines, Flemish historian (d. 1511)
**Catherine of Genoa, woman mystic (d. 1510)
*"probable"
**Giovanni Antonio Amadeo, Italian sculptor (d. 1522)
**Bayezid II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1512)

Deaths

* February 23
**Pope Eugene IV (b. 1383)
**Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (b. 1390)
* March 12 - Shah Rukh, ruler of Persia and Transoxonia (b. 1377)
* April 11 - Henry Cardinal Beaufort, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1377)
* August 13 - Filippo Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan (b. 1392)
* December - Vlad II Dracul, Prince of Wallachia
*"date unknown" - John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter (b. 1395)